How To Return An Array From A Function | C Programming Tutorial

[rabbitcreative]

Neat. I think of it as two opposing thought-processes:
1. This function returns an array.
2. This function is given an array to write to.

[siya.abc]

I'm learning C again after some years, so glad this channel exists because the teachings are super clear to me

[neelakantannilakantanswami]

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[fxs]

When passing a pointer to an array, please don't forget to pass the number of items that has the array, otherwise you might access memory outside of the array and have segfault. The example in the video implies that the array length is 5 so it's hardcoded everywhere and there's no issue here.

[hansformer]

I think more important for the _static_ approach is, that every function call will reference the *same* array.

So when you call set_array(4) and later on set_array(5), the first array will be changed too.
That produces very hard to find bugs because of the sideeffects.

A topic that would be great for another video.

[trg]

I’m a bit disappointed that you didn’t put more emphasis on properly pairing up malloc and free calls. In my experience it helps putting both in the same scope. So in your example one would move the malloc call out of the function and into main.

[fifaham]

Watching those great videos more than once will make you a better programmer.

[ellipszia]

Thank you!! Theese videos are filling big gaps in youtube!

[AK-vxdy]

I'm not regular C programmer but i'm old enough to touch it and i say, *very* clear explanations of some C quirks, wich can let some one really undrestand what is going on.
Thank you and keep going!

[davidharper]

Great explanation, particularly the inclusion of static local variables which are encapsulated but not dynamic... Nice Work

[fifaham]

Educational videos like those, of Kevin, are very hard to find anywhere, not even in the universities. Kevin deserves a lot of appreciation.

[poenanster]

bruh, I've been looking for this for an absurd amount of time, this is much easier than messing with static ints' and those sorts of things..

[yxyk-fr]

8:00 congratulations! you reinvented memset() ;-)

[TheKhalamar]

The huge disadvantage of the static approach is that the same array is shared between the calls. That means that if you call the function twice with different values, the values of the first array will be changed to the new value during the second call (because both have the same address)

[lucasgroves]

🎯 Finally some clarity on static vs dynamic allocation. 👍👍

[ejimenez]

I needed this video 😭 strings and arrays in C are killing me

[HoSza]

somehow i expected that the technique would also be mentioned, but whatever 😂

[RaviKumar-ghoh]

you are the best Sirrrr, nobody like you taught me these concept, plz carry on your way of teaching is unbelievable . i have huge respect for u sir.please don't leave us in this journey.
Thanku sir🙂

[oracle_stm]

Man you just saved me because there are no videos about it on Youtube. Man, thank you very much (I'm in physics, in the third year) ;)

[johndubchak]

I love these videos. Great content, and beautiful explanations. The only nit I have is where the pointer indicator is...I always read it as the dereference operator when it is next to the name of the thing it refers to. (Sorry, don't flame me)